User Profile for Joan Blades (jblades)

Bio: Joan Blades is a co-founder and board member of MoveOn.org., which has an online membership of over 5 million. On Mother’s Day 2006 she co-founded MomsRising.org with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner to tap the power of online grassroots organizing for mothers and families in the U.S. She is also the co-author of The Motherhood Manifesto, which won the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize in 2007 and has been a member of the Reuniting America advisory board. Last century she co-founded Berkeley Systems, best known for the flying toaster screensaver "After Dark," taught mediation at Golden Gate Law School, practiced mediation, and wrote Mediate Your Divorce.

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